2009 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security

  HST 2009  

MAY 11 - 12, 2009

WESTIN HOTEL - WALTHAM, MA - GREATER BOSTON

INFORMATION For Authors

CONFERENCE INFORMATION

About the Conference

With technical assistance from the US DHS S&T Directorate, US DHS DNDO, and the US DOE NNSA; and the ninth annual IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security HST’09, will focus on novel and innovative technologies, which address the most pressing national security problems.

The conference will bring together innovators from leading universities, research laboratories, Homeland Security Centers of Excellence, small businesses, system integrators and the end user community and provide a forum to discuss ideas, concepts and experimental results.

Featured Speakers:

►  Director, Office of Science & Technology Policy, Science Advisor to the President (Invited)

►  Brad Buswell, Deputy Under Secretary, DHS S&T

►  Richard Kikla, Director of Transition, DHS S&T

►  Thomas Cellucci, Chief Commercialization Officer, DHS S&T

►  William Daitch, Assistant Director, DNDO, National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center

►  Randall Weidman, Director, Office of Nuclear Counterterrorism, DOE NNSA

►  Ruth Doherty, Ph.D., Program Executive Officer, C-IED, DHS S&T

CONFERENCE TRACKS

Border and Maritime Security

►  Wide Area Persistent Surveillance

►  Non-intrusive Contraband and WMD Detection

►  Data Fusion, Threat Characterization, Information Collection and Decision Support Technology

►  Tunnel Detection and Foliage Penetration

►  People Screening

Counter IED Technology

►  Transportation Security

►  Standoff/Non-invasive Explosive Detection Technology

►  Mitigation Technology (Including Protection and Neutralization)

►  Enhanced Attribution and Forensic Technology

►  Risk and Threat Analysis Methodology

Critical Infrastructure Protection

►  Physical Infrastructure Protection (including monitoring/surveillance protection access control and credentialing

►  Analysis and Prevention of Cascading Consequences across Infrastructure Sectors

►  Cyber-Infrastructure Protection (Submitted papers must clearly identify the critical infrastructure supported by this research.  Papers that use data from those sectors, or that include trial deployments into those sectors will be favored over general research papers.)

►  Threat/Risk/Consequence Assessment

Weapons of Mass Destruction (primarily nuclear and biological), Detection, Diagnostic and Forensic Technologies

►  Standoff/Portable Detection, Diagnostic and Forensic Technologies

►  Cargo Screening and Security (air, ship, rail, truck)

►  Advanced IT Support (including fusion, anomaly detection, target recognition, decision support, integrated reporting)

►  Risk/Consequence Analysis

Disaster Response

►  Incident Management Systems (including information fusion, decision support and resource management

►  Interoperability and Field-deployable Emergency Communications

►  Situational awareness (including personnel, resources and physical situation)

►  Modeling, Simulation and Training Tool

AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDELINES

IMPORTANT DATES

  Abstract Deadline:  (Extended)   January 23, 2009
  Speaker Notification:  (New Date)   February 6, 2009

 

Final Paper Deadline: (New Date)   April 30, 2009

Deadline for author conference registration is March 15, 2009.  At least one author/presenter for each paper must be registered for the conference by March 15, 2009 for their paper to be included in the conference proceedings.

Call for Papers

The Conference is seeking technical papers in the following matrix of tracks and technical sessions (see on left side). Technical papers submitted should focus on near and next generation technologies capable of deployment within  5 years. The technical paper focus should be on applied research, addressing hard problems where breakthroughs are needed.

Student Papers

The 2009 IEEE- International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security is proud to announce the student paper competition for both oral and poster presentations.  The following prizes will be awarded, 1st - prize $250; 2nd prize - $150; 3rd prize - $100.

Abstracts submitted to the conference should be marked: student paper and be presented by a student.  The awards will be announced at the closing session of the Conference.  The panel of judges, comprising Conference staff, will assess the performance of student-presenters.

Abstract Submission Procedure

Two page, MS Word with maximum 500 words + author(s) title, name, address, phone, fax, email and organization affiliation must be submitted. On a separate page, principal presenting author biography {max 100 words}. Please specify your preferred track and session (see matrix above) Submissions will be acknowledged via email. (Please note: Accepted papers will require at least one author to register and pay the conference fee.)

Email to: abstractsubmit@ieeehomelandsecurityconference.org

Call for Sponsors and Exhibitors

A limited number of sponsorships and exhibit packages are available. To learn more, visit our Sponsor / Exhibit Information page or contact Fausto Molinet at Matrix Internationale 603- 894-4139, or sponsorship@ieeehomelandsecurityconference.org.

For more information on the conference email: information@ieeehomelandsecurityconference.org.

Publishing Information

All papers and posters will be published on the conference CD-ROM and distributed to conference attendees. Selected full technical papers that meet the publishing requirements will be published in IEEE Xplore as part of the IEEE Conference Publication Program.

Guidelines for Publication of Your 8-Page Technical Paper for Inclusion in the IEEE Conference Publication Program

All authors must submit the following:

 

1.

An electronic version of your final  8-page paper in IEEE eXplore ® -compatible PDF format must be submitted via an email attachment to kathleen@ballos.com no later than April 30, 2009

Please note:  All pdf files are required to be IEEE eXplore compliant. HST 2009 has registered for use of the tool IEEE PDF eXpress ™.    IEEE PDF eXpress is a free service to IEEE conferences, allowing authors to make IEEE Xplore -compatible PDFs (by using the conversion function) or to check PDFs that authors have made themselves for IEEE Xplore compatibility (by using the PDF Check function).

    Steps for submission once the IEEE PDF eXpress™ tool is open for your use:
      1. Create your manuscript(s)  
      2. Proofread and check layout of manuscript (it is highly recommended that you do this BEFORE going to IEEE PDF eXpress).  
      3.

Go to http://www.pdf-express.org/  and Create IEEE PDF eXpress account by clicking on "NEW USERS - click here".  The conference ID is hst09x.  You will need this conference ID to create an account.

 
      4. Upload source file(s) for Conversion; and/or PDF(s) for Checking.  
      5.

Use IEEE PDF eXpress to attain IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF(s).  The site contains extensive instructions, resources, helpful hints, and access to technical support.

 
      6. Once you have a compliant PDF file, submit the final IEEE Explore-compatible PDF(s) to kathleen@ballos.com.  The deadline for submitting this final PDF file is April 30, 2009.  
 

2.

A completed and signed IEEE copyright form sent by:

FAX to:
Ballos Associates
US Fax # 978-597-6419

Electronic version of the copyright form can be sent to kathleen@ballos.com

Important: Please make sure you fill in the "Title of the Work", which will be the name of your paper (including your assigned paper identification number), as well as the author(s) information, and sign the copyright form. 

 

Paper Length:

   

The paper should consist of eight pages, including your 150-word abstract and all figures and images.

 

Paper Text:

 
  • Title

  • List of authors and their affiliations

  • Abstract

  • Introduction

  • Body

  • Conclusion

  • Acknowledgements (optional)

  • References

  • Appendices (optional)

   

The paper will be printed in the proceedings CD exactly as submitted. Authors must therefore follow the formatting instructions which can be downloaded here.

   

Naming Convention: The name of the file containing the paper should be your paper identification number only. Example:  126.pdf

   

Downloaded Style Files: Presenters can also download the transactions style file and the bibliography style file to use with LaTeX or Microsoft Word. These style files may be used to prepare conference papers by using the [conference] option. The address is: http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html

 

Questions regarding these instructions should be emailed to kathleen@ballos.com.